Japanese PHS operator willcom to apply for bankruptcy protection

According to foreign media reports, Japan PHS operator Willcom will apply for bankruptcy protection, under the framework of restructuring and SoftBank, as well as Japan's government-backed fund Japan Enterprise Regeneration Support Agency (Enterprise turnaround initiative corp-etic)　　To negotiate and hope for a turnaround in the business.　　The willcom is likely to file a bankruptcy filing next month, etic to consider willcom into a company that specializes in PHS telephone services, where the agency monitors its operations and other businesses work with SoftBank to form a service sector dedicated to providing next-generation technology.　　Willcom spokesman Shinji Sugiuchi declined to comment on the report. Willcom in Japan has more than 4 million PHS users, mainly engaged in PHS wireless local telephone, commonly known as "PHS" mobile phone services.　　Willcom, an American private-equity firm Carlyle Holdings in 2004, was hit hard by the recession, as Nikkei News reported late last year that SoftBank would buy willcom Stakes. The content personage analysis, in already past 2009, the domestic PHS uses the number to cut more than half in the prosperous period, along with 3G depth, whether the small well-informed originator present predicament will be China PHS business prospect?　　Tens of millions of domestic PHS users to speed up the loss of new users to join the tight issues in the past two years has been accompanied by the development of telecommunications, is to abandon PHS business or to carry out a new improvement, PHS "survival or death" will be the operator of China Telecom in 2010 to face the problem. (Editor: GH) Author: Sadie Network-communications industry